Renewal Ceremony Sample

They have dried each other’s tears and applauded each other’s successes. Today they come to celebrate not only the memory of those years, but also the hopes they cherish for the future.

They’ve had their successes and their failures. Some of the things they’ve worried about turned out not to matter at all. In the long run what really mattered was their love for each other. The one constant in their lives had grown stronger with every passing year.

Whatever the future holds for them, they will always have their love. It is more than enough.

They have both changed since they made their wedding vows. The world around them has changed even more. But one thing remains the same. Fifteen years ago they promised to love each other, to give of the best to each other, to cherish and hold on to each other no matter what else happened. And that still remains the same. 

Sylvia

Through the years we have learned a lot about each other, and we have grown together. We have learned about forgiveness; it takes two understanding people to accept one another's faults and still find it in their hearts to forgive each other and forget old arguments

We have learned about friendship; friends stick together, they're always truthful to each other, and they always comfort one another in times of turmoil.

Most of all, we have learned about love. It is something that takes time, and after all our time together, our love has never been stronger. 

David

How good it is to let our memory wander and travel back across the fruitful years. To count how many miles we've walked together! On pinnacle of dreams, through vales of tears, along the level ground of every day we've made our way. 

In sickness and in health, in joy and sadness, together, side by side, sunshine or shade, we've worked toward common goals, found satisfaction in all the hours of which our years are made. 

All things were possible because we shared, because we cared. After many years, we still hold dearest of all life's blessings anywhere on earth the trust and honor that we give each other, the love that gave our other blessings birth. 

Praise be that I am yours by plan divine, that you are mine!

Renewal of Vows

David:

Sylvia, with full confidence in the strength of our love, I take you once again as my wife.

Sylvia:

David with full confidence in the strength of our love, I take you once again as my husband.

Exchanging Rings

David:

Today we join with family and friends to reaffirm our union. We do this in grateful appreciation for what has gone before, and in loving anticipation of the years ahead. What I have promised before, I gladly promise again: to love you, honor you, and respect you. 

Take this ring as a symbol that I give to you all that I have been, all that I am now, all that I hope to be.

Sylvia:

Today we join with family and friends to reaffirm our union. We do this in grateful appreciation for what has gone before, and in loving anticipation of the years ahead. What I have promised before, I gladly promise again: to love you, honor you, and respect you. 

Take this ring as a symbol that I give to you all that I have been, all that I am now, all that I hope to be.

Celebrant:

May that special love you now share continue to grow and blossom in the years to come and be sustained by the Divine, by family and friends and by the commitment you make again this day.

May you find in each other companionship as well as love; understanding as well as compassion; challenge as well as agreement.

May the home in which you live continue be an island where the pressures of the world can be sorted out and brought into focus; where tensions can be released and understood; where personal needs do not tower over concern for others and where the warmth of humor and love puts crisis into perspective.

Above all, may you find an even richer joy in living, learning and loving together.